Oh How Moses Must Have Wept!
The people rebelled against Moses and even God, yet Moses still stood in the gap for the
“So Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped. Then he said, “If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.””
Exodus 34:8-9 NKJV
Yet they grumbled and even wanted to kill Moses
“Now those who died in the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died in the Korah incident. ”
Numbers 16:49 NKJV
Oh! Moses's heart must have shattered.
Where oh where is the reverend awe of God!
Lord!Have mercy on your people, but in reverend worship, be God.
“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”
II Peter 3:9 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/2pe.3.9.NKJV
“And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, ”
Exodus 34:6 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/exo.34.6.NIV
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